Is your Lifestyle stressing you?

Those who are experiencing high amounts of
stress in their lifestyle need to always be aware of the idea of burnout
potentially looming in the future. While the term ‘burnout’ is often
thrown around in discussions of stress, do you really know what it
means, and how it’s caused?

The term “burnout” is a relatively new term, first coined in 1974 by Herbert Freudenberger, in his book, “Burnout: The
High Cost of High Achievement”. He originally defined ‘burnout’ as,
“the extinction of motivation or incentive, especially where one's
devotion to a cause or relationship fails to produce the desired
results.”

While burnout isn’t a recognized clinical psychiatric
or psychological disorder, there are some similar features between
burnout and diagnosable conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders
or mood disorders. However, burnout is much more common; for example, it’s estimated that 25%-60% of
practicing physicians experience burnout! It’s also less severe, more
temporary in duration, and clearly caused by situational stressors
rather than a biologically mandated chemical imbalance. (It’s kind of
like depression’s non-clinical, less intense cousin that just comes for a
visit and leaves when you reduce the stress in your life.)Read more